Yes. if both added are 2 characters long there is no need for a 的
The basic structure is build around 2 characters which gives usually an unambiguous meaning.
If you were using 汽车 for car, the sentence should be 我想买一辆新 的 汽车 (because we have 3 characters)
But I am simply, like you, a student. Chewing the big cake of learning Mandarin.